Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1099#discussion_r202801374
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@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ topology in kafka. Errors are collected with the
context of the error
(e.g. stacktrace) and original message causing the error and sent to an
`error` queue. Invalid messages as determined by global validation
functions are also treated as errors and sent to an `error` queue.
+
+Multiple sensors can be aggregated into a single Storm topology. When this
is done, there will be
+multiple Kafka spouts, but only a single parser bolt which will handle
delegating to the correct
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@ottobackwards I think that's essentially the parser chaining stuff I added
earlier, am I misunderstanding? The
[use-case](https://github.com/apache/metron/tree/master/use-cases/parser_chaining)
is using the "we get a ton of types of data in syslog" example.
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